The ends and means of any education system require continuing adaptation to social, cultural, technological and commercial change, both within and from without the country in which it is applied. I find it difficult to understand, therefore, how a change to the system in this country could be motivated at this time on the basis of a need to "decolonise" the system. (Decolonising education entails a rise in critical literacy to prod at "truths", April 11). Such an idea would seem to indicate that our education system has been completely static from the time that we were last under colonial rule and that we remain locked in its paradigm. Such a situation patently does not exist. I also question whether it can reasonably be proposed that the need for this change arises from the risk of continuing along our path without any meaningful grasp of the sources of our knowledge, and the manipulation to which we are exposed by nefarious powers as a result. The proposition is laughable in the e...
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